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Online Resources

• 1867 Massachusetts Register, 1867 at MyHeritage — index & images ($)
• 1869 Massachusetts Register, 1869, Volume 1 at MyHeritage — images($)
• 1869 Massachusetts Register, 1869, Volume 2 at MyHeritage — images($)
• 1902 New England Business Directory And Gazetteer, 1902 at MyHeritage — index & images ($)
• 1916 New England Business Directory And Gazetteer, 1916, Part 1 at MyHeritage — index & images ($)
• 1918 New England Business Directory And Gazetteer, 1918, Part 2 at MyHeritage — index & images ($)
• 1918 New England Business Directory And Gazetteer, 1918, Part 3 at MyHeritage — index & images ($)
• Massachusetts City Directories($), index/images
• Massachusetts City Directories, statewide and by county
• Distant Cousin City Directories
• Directory of the Ancestral Heads of New England Families, 1620-1700. Online at: FS Library film #1036388, item 6, images; Ancestry ($), index & images
• Massachusetts Online Historical Directories - listed by county
• Massachusetts Registers and Directories, State Library of Massachusetts, index

History

Directories of heads of households have been published for major cities in Massachusetts.

Resources for Massachusetts Directories

Directories Online

• Fold3.com ($) has 116 years of Boston City Directories spanning 1789-1926 available online.
• Ancestry.com ($) has Massachusetts directories available online in its U.S. City Directories collection.
• 1918: New England Business Directory And Gazetteer, Part 3 at MyHeritage; index & images ($)

The FamilySearch Library

The FamilySearch Library has city directories for various years from throughout the state of Massachusetts including:

Boston

1789-1860	FS Library fiche 6043615-73
1861-1935	FS Library film 1376557(first of 84 films)
1905, 1909, 1941, 1951	FS Library Book 974.461 E4p

To find directories, consult the Place Search of the FamilySearch Catalog under:

MASSACHUSETTS, [COUNTY] — DIRECTORIES

MASSACHUSETTS, [COUNTY], [TOWN] — DIRECTORIES

Websites

• Many Massachusetts city directories
• Distant Cousin includes many free excellent searchable online directories.
• Ancestry.com has a large collection of Massachusetts city directories for many cities and years (from the New England Historic Genealogical Society)
• Massachusetts Genealogy City Directories
• US City Directories This web site identifies printed, microfilmed, and online directories and their repositories.